72 Quotes by Matthew Vaughn

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

I'm a closet geek.

I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.

I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.

If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.

I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.